New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1916, Page 14

~ould Make the Da NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1916. arf at St. Thomas. 2—Scene in city of St. Thomas. 3—Blue- castle, St. Thomas. 4—King 5—Scene in tian of Denmark. homas. * CQUISITION of the islands of St. 5 Thomas, St. John and Santa Cruz, the Danish West Indies, by the United States will in “obability be of great benefit to ands as well as this country. they will prove a most important 1y base there is no doubt, and it d that when the treaties rati- the sale are signed preparations tify the islands will be made. It jeen pointed out that since -the ion of the Panama canal the | States has needed these islands than ever before. Likewise the on of the islands will be great- ited. me Facts About the Islands. cstimated area of the Danish dies is 358.9 square kilometers sruare miles), of which St. Thom- 111 the adjacent small islands occu- 17 jsquare kilometers; St. John, rounding smaller islands, 54.40 kilometers; Santa Cruz, Buck Green cay and Protestant cay, square kilometers. following table shows the divi- ion of the land: St. St. Thomas. John. area in acres.16,082.25 13,211 z. plantat’ns. 4.00 5.067.91 | er culture... 2,364.65 622.75 31,614.66 A of no use.13,714.23 12,581.00 4,744.25 | e above table indicates that sugar ure is confined to the island of San- Cruz. The area “for other culture” npri principally the areas used as res and likewise those used for ton and sisal plantations and for| fruit and vegetable culture. Under this Santa Cru. Total title, as regards St. Thomas and St. John, only the area actually used is in- cluded, while under the title “Waste land” is in this connection included un- cultivated, bush or forest covered land regardless of its suitability for cultiva- tion. As to Santa Cruz, the title “For | other culture” means all land suitable for cultivation which is not taxed as sugar cane raising land, even if the land is bush grown and wilderness. “Waste land” as to this island means barren land unsuitable for tillage. The Population. The population, according to the cen- sus of 1901, was 30,627 against 38,000 in 1860. Classified according to race, there are the white, the black and the mixed races. According to a report is- sued by the statistical bureau of Den- — e e ————— nish Islands F on efig@m@ C DA T __ WEST X ST. THO! "GaY QF rep S Sade PUERTO” ST RICO & WNDIES o 07/ wi e mark, there are about 600 whites, or 3 per cent, in the island of Santa Cruz. In St. Thomas the percentage of whites is a trifie larger, while in St. John it is very small. Of the white population 427 were born in Denmark. According to recent newspaper reports, a rather heavy emigration is taking place from the Danish West Indies to Porto Rico. Steamers in time of peace run to the islands every fortnight from South- ampton via Barbados, once a month from Havre or Bordeaux, four or five times from Hamburg, but most of these steamers are freighters. Freight steam- ers also ply between Liverpool and the Danish West Indies. Trade. The islands import annually goods worth about $1,500,000. Of this the| United States furnishes more than one- half and the United Kingdom about one-fourth, while the imports from Denmark are only $140,000. The exports are valued at about $750,000, of which more than 80 per cent are destined for the United States. The principal im- | per cent of the total export), bay rum, beeswax, hides, skins and cotton. | The Panama canal imparts great im- | portance to thes nds for the reason | that St. Thomas has a better harbor | than Barbados. | About $300,000 worth of sugar W | cont to the United States last | from St. Croix, the principal agricul- | tural nd. The United States sends ports are breadstuffs ard provisions, [about $400,000 worth of coal to the iron and steel, boots and shoes from nds annually. Manufactured ar- the United States, and cotton goods, | ticles and foodstuffs are purchased electrical goods, machinery, iron and|from American and European mar- steel, spirits, soap and woolens from | kets. the United Kingdom. The principal| Rum worth $37,000 was produced in items of export are sugar (nearly 50 St. Croix in 1914, but only a small part AIMiEr ica was exported to the United Statesi Horses, mules d cattle valued a more than $700,000 were raised tha vear, but few were exported. A gmal amount of cotton also was shippeg out, none to the United States. Inci dental products used by the United States were goat and sheep sking straw paper, bay rum and rice. The harbor of St. Thomas forme was the trading center for most of th West Indies, but the establishment steamship lines and cable service'a abled merchants to deal directly’ wit manufacturers. The result was tha | the trade of that port now is limited | needs of the adjacent islands. l‘;rohibitionists, Hopeful, Say They Can Win Election In the Next Few Years—Hanly Candidate This Year HILE the Prohibition party has no wild dreams of L electing their candidate, J. Frank Hanly, over the | nocratic and Republican nominees | his year, leaders of the party have ex- | ed the opinion that by 1920 or 1924 | movement will have gained | supporters to make the vote | and some even claim that they going to win then. There is no t that the movement h and stronger each y states now have prohibition laws | that several years ago were listed in | wet column. The following brief story of the party shows how the | movement has grown since its incep- | tion 1872 fet in Columbus, O.; James Black | Pennsylvania and John Russell of lichigan, nominees; vote cast, 5,607 187—Met in Cleveland, O.; Green Clay ith of Kentucky and Gideon T. Stew- of Ohio, nominees; vote, 9,737. | —Met in Cleveland, O.; General Neal | Maine and H. A. Thompson of | inees; vote, 10,36 Met in Pittsburgh; John P. St. John Kansas and William Daniel of Mary- land, nominees; vote, 150,626. 18::—Met in Indianapolis, Ind.; Clinton I Fisk of New Jersey and J. A. Brooks souri, nominees; vote, 249,945, | Met in Cincinnati, O.; John A. Bid- Cranfill of | of io, 1884 ; Joshua Lever- | Hale Johnson of | ; vote, 120,7 go; John G. Woolley of | f of Rhode Is- | o | ic Ind.; 8. C. nia and George B. . and Aaron S. Wat- s; vote, 206,92 aul and nominated J. < of Ohio, no; 1—Met in St. F nk Hanly. J. Frank Hanly was born in a log cabin in Champaign county, IIl, in 1863, not many miles from the old home of Abraham Lincoln. He received most | of his earlier education at his mother’s | knee under her tutorship. He was able to attend school only a few weeks each year. At thirteen he started out to make his way in the world. By teaching school in the winter he was enabled to take a short course in the Eastern Illi- nois Normal school at Danville. He was admitted to the bar in 1839, In 1890 he was elected to the state senate of Indiana as a Republican. In 1894 | he was elected to congress, and in 1904 | \e was elected governor of Indiana by a majority of almost 85,000, Mr. Hanly J. FRANK HANLY OF INDIANA. practices law in Indianapolis, is editor of the National Inquirer and devotes much of his time to delivering prohibi tion addresses. forceful speaker. Rev. Dr. Ira Landrith, the vice presi- dential nominee, was born in Milford, Tex., March 23, 1865. He was graduat- ed from the Cumberland university, Tennessee, and studied theology, be came editor of the Cumberland Pres- byterian, was long state chairman of the Young Men's Christian association of Tennessee, state secretary of the He is an eloquent and | Anti-saloon league, which led in put- | ting saloons out of Tennessce; was moderator of the last general assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian church Church In America, president of the International Y. M. C. A. in 1913, pres- ident of Belmont college, 1904-12; president of Ward-Belmont college, Nashville, 1913-15; editor afield Christian Endeavor World and exten- sion secretary of Christian Endeavor the past two years. OLD COIN FOUND. A pine tree shilling bearing the date 16 was turned up recently in the gar- den of the estate of the late General John Marshall Brown at Falmouth JForeside, Me., and is now the property of F bert Payson. The pine tree shilling was the earliest colonial coin made in Massachusetts. A PECULIAR COINCIDENCE. Two Lawrence (Mass.) dealers traded cash registers, one of them paying $47 to boot. A few days later the one who had received the $47 was surprised to receive another $47 from his friend. The latter had taken the machine apart and had found that amount in the back when it united with the Presbyterian | of the United Society | NTEREST in Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackelton’s expedition toward the south pole, in which he discovered new land and also faced many | hardships, has been renewed by the re- ceipt in this country of pictures of the expedition, made by the explorer him- | self. The accompanying views give an | accurate idea of what the region in the | polar districts looks like and also give a good insight Into the difficulties of | making headway against the ice floes. Almost from the first, after starting from South Georgia in December, 1914, the Endurance experienced unfavorable | conditivns. Within a month the little ship was forging its way through ice floes. A new land, with a coast line of about 200 miles and great slaciers dis- charging into the sea, was discovered during this period. TFuture ma show this latest addition to Bri ritory, but will contain no mention of New South Greenland, which Shackle- ton proved to have been Shackleton’s soundings in the reg heretofore charted on the may South Greenland are declared to have shown 1,901 fathoms of water. Other work of the expedition included a com- | dell sea, continuous teorological observe ological observations, records to Oct. 30 records up to date. Satisfaction over their earlier achieve- | ments was soon overshadowed by foreboding that the approaching s was likely to be an abnormal one. “great migration of thousands of seals | northward” was observed. T escaping from a doom of which they had been forewarned by instinct. The durance pushed on, only to meet with | worse conditions. At length she be- | came wedged in ice floes, while berss towercd above her as though they at any moment overwhelm For weeks on end the Endurance re- | ed the pressure, but by August it | as apparent she must be crushed into | {a mass of splinters. The party was | then forced to make camp on onc of the ice floes. Then came the end of the “The terri pressure,” nated in the tearing out of nd rudder post.” drove upward, ice cut the fires were ex 1 p from which sel became a hopel moving and p photogr were | little party of explorers found themselves strangers in a frozen wo r own visions taken from the 1 hip before of the registex. she was abandoned, and their only hope Where Ice Is Shackleton’s Pictures Show the Many bifficuiti;;' and# Dangers of rMakin King Photos © 1915, by Amer Assoclation, from Medem, by Sir THE ENDURANCE IN THE ICE AND TYPICAL IGE FIELD. n tr ot safety resided Days of to fruitlc e small boats 1 await developments An attempt set up, and escape A period of | thes litary r ssed Ic At tir hackleton various nort lated on separate floes.” | They saw the desire There was nothing to be done but to | could not reach it. units says were on the it times, but th the floe| d lang At len Lirnest Shackleton. 7 i on which they were Imprisoned splif ] under the influenc of the swes marooned men had to takdi® boa On N y 19 Shackis across the island of Souty Georgia, the interior of which had been trod by the foot of man. i